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In October, BMI hosted a webinar on autonomous cars. The variety of clients that participated in the event reflects the many different business areas that will be impacted by such technology, with attendees including carmakers, component suppliers,...

Latin American governments will increasingly look to the private sector via the use of innovative financing methods - spearheaded by programmes in Mexico and Chile - to help shore up shortfalls in ambitious infrastructure plans. In Brazil, however,...

BMI's Risk/Reward Index provide a platform for investors to compare markets across a variety of indicators that assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of individual countries. In doing so, our index provide a method for benchmarking regionally...

The CE markets in Europe are at different stages of development, with the most advanced looking at new devices, such as wearables, to boost growth where upgrade and replacement cycles have lengthened. The more developed markets are moving towards...

BMI View: Malaysia moves up to the highest rank in our Asia Mining Risk/Reward index due to its strong mining legislative framework, pro-business environment and abundant mineral reserves. At the other end, emerging markets, including Thailand,...

The regional average Risk/Reward score for the Asia IT market has remained constant q-o-q at 57.3 points out of a potential 100. However, this score masks a mixture of minor positive and negative changes in the Rewards components that are reflected...

Although comparatively low penetration of mobile voice and data services in Sub-Saharan Africa in theory offers strong growth opportunities, many new consumers are located in difficult to reach rural areas, while low consumer spending power and...

Since Q108, we have described numerically the banking business environment for each of the countries analysed by BMI. We do this through our Commercial Banking Industry Risk/Reward Index (RRI), a measure that ensures we capture the latest...

In this latest update of our Risk/Reward Index for Europe's Autos sector in Europe, there have been few major changes in the positions of countries. The stability of the developed states keeps the majority of them in the 'low risk' half of the...

The attraction of the Middle East and North African retail market to potential investors comes mainly from a favourable long-term economic outlook, a steady rise in disposable incomes, strong tourism industries and a growing interest in Western...